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On July 4, 2025, at Osun State University, Professor Adebooye, the Vice-Chancellor, presented the 2025 Leopold Sedar Senghor ...
Here’s a list of travel destinations inspired by the negritude movement, which sought to reclaim Black pride internationally and expose the problems of colonialism.
Négritude was a Francophone movement to rethink what it meant to be Black and African. Scholar Merve Fejzula explores the dynamic debates happening in the early- to mid-20th century among ...
Here’s a list of travel destinations inspired by the negritude movement, which sought to reclaim Black pride internationally and expose the problems of colonialism.
Three months ago, in a bitter end to a beautiful friendship, Poet-President Leopold Senghor of peanut-growing Senegal, on the West African coast, booted out of office his old friend, Premier ...
Négritude, as formulated by Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and others, revalorized the historic contributions of Black creatives toward the development of a universal civilization.
Until recently. President Leopold Senghor and Premier Mamadou Dia of peanut-producing Senegal were as close as two nuts in a pod. Both worked feverishly to win Senegal's independence from France ...
Synopsis Based on archive material, Manthia Diawara organizes an imagined dialogue between Léopold Senghor, one of the founders of the concept of Negritude, and Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian writer ...
An auction in France of items belonging to the first Senegalese president has been delayed, as the government in Dakar negotiates to buy them directly. Léopold Sédar Senghor's possessions ...
First president of independent Senegal Leopold Sédar Senghor stood out among the African leaders of his generation for his commitment to the arts, as a new exhibition explains, writes David Tresilian ...
More than 300 books collected by the first president of independent Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor, will be transferred to Dakar after the Senegalese government stepped in to stop them being ...